Antoine-Louis Barye
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Antoine-Louis Barye was a Romantic French sculptor known for his work as an animalier, a sculptor of animals. His son and student was the sculptor Alfred Barye.
Portrait by Léon Bonnat
Hercules Sitting on a Bull, 1830s (National Museum, Warsaw)
Theseus and the Minotaur, 1843 (Baltimore Museum of Art)
Roger and Angelica Mounted on the Hippogriff, 1846 (Walters Art Museum)
Lion with a Snake
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Lion with a Snake is an 1832 sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye. It measures 1.35 by 1.78 by 0.96 metres.
Antoine-Louis Barye
…high and 103 cm long, and Lion Crushing a Serpent, 138 cm high and 178 cm long, made in bronze. In 1832 had truly mastered a style of his own in the Lion with a Snake. Barye, though engaged in a perpetual struggle with want, exhibited year after year studies of animals, admirable groups which reveal him as inspired…
The original plaster version, cast in 1832, now housed at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
The original bronze cast now housed in the Louvre
A bronze version of the statue in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia
A sketch of the sculpture now at Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore